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Identifier: battlesofninetee01forb (find matches)
Title: Battles of the nineteenth century
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Forbes, Archibald, 1838-1900 Atteridge, A. Hilliard (Andrew Hilliard)
Subjects: Battles Military history, Modern
Publisher: London New York : Cassell and Company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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and in his uni-form must have made a conspicuous figureupon the Asias deck. Instead of his cockedhat he wore a round hat, which affordedbetter shade to his ejes ; this was pierced in twoplaces by bullet-holes. His coat-sleeve, whichchanced to be rather loose, had two bullet-holesin it just above the wrist. A ball struck thewatch in his fob and shivered it, but left him un-.injured. Tahir Pacha afterwards admitted toMr. Kerigan, on board the Blotide^ that he him-self posted a company of riflemen to aim at theBritish admiral and shoot him if they could. . NAVARINO. The combined fleets quitted the harbour ofNavarino on the 25th of October, having tarriedawhile, unmolested, to repair damages. Theywere suffered to depart by the Turks without thefiring of a single shot, although it had been quite 36q of the Military Order of St. Louis ; and theEmperor Nicholas of Russia, in an autographletter, bestowed upon him the rare honour ofwearing the second class of the Military Orderof St. Geortre.
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THE BATTLE WAS MAINTAINED WITH UNAIiATED FLRY KOR AliOVE FOUR HOURS (/. 36S). expected that the batteries would open uponthem as they passed the harbour mouth. On the3rd of November they arrived at Malta. Herethey spent some considerable time in refitting.For his services Sir Edward Codrington receivedthe Grand Cross of the Bath ; the King ofFrance conferred upon him the Grand Cross 24 Navarino was fought without anv declara-tion of war, and the news of hostilities createdgreat surprise in England. Many questionswere asked in Parliament as to whether theBritish Commander-in-Chief had done wisely totreat the Turks as enemies, and there was muchvacillation displayed by the weak Government BATTLES OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. —Lord Goderichs—then in power. In thefollowing June Sir Edward Codrington receiveda letter of recall from Lord Aberdeen, dated atthe Foreign Office, London, May, 1828. It wasa most elaborate document of twenty paragraphs,embodying a number of charges of misconcept

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